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Battlefield 3 is designed to deliver unmatched visual quality by including large scale environments, massive destruction and dynamic shadows. Additionally, BF 3 also includes character animation via ANT technology, which is also being utilized in the EA Sports franchise. All of this is definitely going to push any system its threshold, and is the reason so many gamers around the world are currently asking if their current system is up to the task.
The Top graph reflects our results at 1920x1080, while the lower graph reflects our results Eyefinity and Surround results at 5760x1080.
Wow! Battlefield is one of the most visually demanding games on the market, but the GTX 690 was still able to run it well over 100FPS. The GTX 690 was nearly 70% faster than the GTX 680 in this benchmark, 72% faster than the HD 6990 and 63% faster than the GTX 590. We would further compare it other graphics cards, but really what would be the point?
At 5760x1080, the GTX 690 dominated all the other graphics cards and was the only card in the chart that could come close to playing Battlefield at such a high resolution at nearly 60FPS.
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Seems too good to be true TBH... I expect Nvidia to have put a catch in somewhere, such as a massive price. How it manages to stay that cool though, even on referecne design which means that when companies start to experiment with cooler layouts, the drop in temp will be even more impressive. Power requirements are too bad either. $1000 is £618, but since that is only about 150 more than what a 680 costs, that is where it seems to good to be true. With it being Britain I'd expect to see another £100-£200 to be added to that.
That LED, whilst having no added functionality to it, makes it look awesome.
EDIT:
As I expected. £809.99, puts it at $1300.
to be honest, id rather dual 680s. if the 690 is priced at 1000, then two 500 dollar 680s would be better.
and nvidia and their aa... gotta love em.
im excited to see txaa in person, since screenshots dont often do justice (fxaa looks good in zoomed-in pictures, but when you play the game itself w/ fxaa its all blurry